Please Attend Meeting To Correctly Admonish DA Kim Ogg

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The Harris County Democratic Party meeting that will discuss the justified admonishment of rogue District Attorney Kim Ogg is Tuesday, December 12th.

Though elected Precinct Chairs will be able to vote, that does not mean your presence is not important.  Above are details about the meeting from Indivisible Houston leader and Precinct 272 Chair Daniel Cohen. I am not a Chair, but I will be at the meeting. 

Daniel has been a big part of the effort. DA Ogg has said the initiative comes from her Democratic primary opponent Sean Teare. But that is just not so. It's a grassroots deal all the way. 

Below are some of the reasons for the admonishment motion. On thing not mentioned is DA Ogg's open support of Republican At-Large 3 City Council candidate Twila Carter in her narrow win over Democrat Richard Cantu.

From the motion:        

• In June 2022, in the wake of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, Ogg noted that she would prosecute Gov. Greg Abbott’s abortion ban, the most extreme in the nation, “on a case by case basis.” 

 

• Ogg has joined Republican officials in repeatedly making demonstrably false claims that Harris County democrats on Commissioners Court are “defunding law enforcement.”

 

• Ogg continues to oppose efforts by democrats to reform our broken criminal justice system by working to oppose efforts by democrats to fix the cash-bail system, intimidating public servants working to enact community and gun violence prevention programs, lobbying for republican legislation fueling mass incarceration that disproportionately impacts black and brown communities, and directly attacking elected democratic judges advocating for fairness to our criminal justice system.  

 

• In November of 2022, at the behest of State and local republican Officials, Ogg initiated a partisan criminal investigation against local election workers - an investigation premised on debunked conspiracy theories, lies, and unproven innuendo.  Ogg also pursued a criminal investigation against Hervis Rogers for voting in the March 2020 primary. Rogers is a 64-year old black man who was already arrested and prosecuted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a politically motivated investigation designed to add credence to “the big lie.”

 

• In August of 2023, Ogg broke a major campaign promise to support decriminalizing low-level drug offenses, which disproportionately impact people of color, by reversing her own policy. 

  

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